13 must-read philosophy books like Workers and Capital by Mario Tronti

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Workers and Capital

By: Mario Tronti

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first timeWorkers and Capital is…

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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

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"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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2. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.95

Format: 624 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed, but the transformation of Mars to a… read more

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"Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

"Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

"That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

"Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2)

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3. Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts

By: Lynd Ward

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The most important work of American artist and illustrator Lynd Ward, Gods' Man is a powerfully evo… read more

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4. L'Avversario

By: Emmanuel Carrère , Eliana Vicari Fabris

3.99

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

«Il 9 gennaio 1993 Jean-Claude Romand ha ucciso la moglie, i figli e i genitori, poi ha tentato di … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Il est notoire que les hommes les plus remarquables sont aussi les plus modestes, les moins soucieux de l'opinion qu'on a d'eux."

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

"Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingt…"

-Emmanuel Carrère, L'Avversario

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5. We Want Everything

By: Nanni Balestrini

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Explosive novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969 by leading Italian novelist It was 1969, and tempe… read more

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  • italy
  • politics
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6. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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7. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

By: Karl Marx , Daniel de Leon , D.D.L.

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" is one of Karl Marx' most profound and most brilliant m… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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8. Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune

By: Kristin Ross

4.09

Format: None pages,

The Commune is back on the agenda. From Madrid to Istanbul, from Cairo to New York, people are reap… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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9. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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10. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979

By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , Graham Burchell

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Michel Foucault's lectures at the College de France in 1979, The Birth of Biopolitics, pursue and d… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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11. Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

By: Italo Calvino

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Pubblicato nel 1947, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno e il romanzo d'esordio di Italo Calvino. Protago… read more

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  • italy
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12. The German Ideology

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideo… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology

13. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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14. In the Long Run We Are All Dead

By: Geoff Mann

4.31

Format: 32 pages,

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15. Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

By: Steve Wright

4.12

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Storming Heaven is the first comprehensive survey of Italian autonomist theory, from its origins in… read more

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16. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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17. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

By: Ellen Meiksins Wood

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extensi… read more

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18. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

By: György Lukács , Rodney Livingstone

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

This is the first time one of the most important of Lukacs' early theoretical writings, published i… read more

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19. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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20. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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21. Septology

By: Jon Fosse

4.52

Format: 825 pages, Paperback

The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more

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  • philosophy
"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"

-Jon Fosse, Septology

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22. Mute Compulsion. A Theory of the Economic Power of Capital

By: Søren Mau

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

[From Author's Summary] Despite a decade of crisis and social unrest, capitalism is in many ways … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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23. Workers and Capital

By: Mario Tronti

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The classic text of Italian workerism available in English for the first timeWorkers and Capital is… read more

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  • italy
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • economics
  • sociology
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24. A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But w… read more

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  • politics
"I’ll never figure out if I’m supposed to let worry get the best of me,"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

"All people are free. When we speak of freedom, we acknowledge that freedom is a relationship between the people of the society. This relationship of freedom is created by the means of mutual respect,…"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

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25. Marxism and Philosophy

By: Karl Korsch

3.78

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

English, German (translation) read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Isto [violenta contradição ideológica com o marxismo] já valia para a primeira fase histórica em que, segundo a pertinente análise feita por trotski em 1908, a doutrina marxista serviu - precisamente…"

-Karl Korsch, Marxism and Philosophy

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26. After Work: The Politics of Free Time

By: Helen Hester

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely manifesto for a feminist post-work politics Does it ever feel like you have no free tim… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • economics
  • sociology
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27. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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28. Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Field Notes)

By: Phil A. Neel

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transfor… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"In Nevada I could feel the Long Crisis with a terrifying intimacy, as if it was some sort of uncanny, bodily contact— like the feeling you get camped out in the swirling, galaxy-littered darkness of …"

-Phil A. Neel, Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict (Field Notes)

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29. The State Debate

By: Simon Clarke

3.92

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s promise to be a period of rapid political change, as old political boundaries dissolve an… read more

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30. Anti-bolshevik communism

By: Paul Mattick

4.09

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

This title was first published in 1978:  Communism aims at putting working people in charge of thei… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. A Thousand Little Machines: A/traverso and the Movement of ‘77

By: Franco "Bifo" Berardi

4.78

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In 1977 youth revolts spectacular in their intensity, creativity and violence would send shockwaves… read more

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